Apparently reality distortion field beats demo effect.

Ish.

I would not trust C++ for safety-critical work as MISRA can only limit features, it can't add support for contracts.

There have been other dialects of C++ - Aspect-Oriented C++ and Feature-Oriented C++ being the two that I monitored closely. You can't really do either by using subsetting, regardless of mechanism.

IMHO, it might be easier to reverse the problem. Instead of having specific subsets for specific tasks, where you drill down to the subset you want, have specific subsets for specific mechanisms where you build up to the feature set you need.

the poster didn't say anything about federal funding. the republican party exists and operates at the state level too, you know

Oh, absolutely. These days, I spend so much time checking the output from computers, it would normally have been quicker to do searches by hand. This is... not useful.

I can fully understand that.

The knowledge is free.

The skilled professionals to persuade the pupil whose civil rights include refusing to learn to absorb it are not.

You can lock a kid in a library but you can't make her think. When ignorance is virtue we have lost.

Large houses in hot climates don't have enough roof space to accommodate the number of panels you would need to displace grid power. Using obsolete panels that generated less power when they were new is only going to make the problem worse.

Leaning into unreliable power sources when demand is increasing is just going to make any supply issues worse.

Someone posted what they pay for electricity in California and what their buy back rate is and their rates are insane.

Which is pants on head retarded.

Both from a moral level, keeping people in debt to ensure they're indentured to someone and from a business perspective as it's a imperial shitton (about 1.8 Metric fuckloads) of risk. In case you don't remember the last time the banks over-leveraged on risky customers, it was only 2008, there was a massive collapse we're still feeling the effects of.

I'm glad my country doesn't have anything of the sort. Experian are trying to "sell" their credit score system but no-one is buying. When you apply for credit here (I.E. home or car loan) your existing credit obligations including potential ones (like a credit card or phone contract) are listed as risks and detract from the amount you can borrow.

I think everyone is over thinking this. NVidia need to do something with that money they're drowning in and there's only so much that can be syphoned off to tax havens before everyone starts asking questions. If they kept it, they'd need to pay tax on it and we can't have that.

What's surprised me in the processor market is AMD making inroads in the laptop space that Intel owned for decades, even when AMD were dominating on the desktop and had very strong server offerings (the Athlon 64/Opteron days, for those who's memories stretch back that far). 15% of laptops are now AMD.

Upgrading budget laptops is how you save.

I have a cheap Asus gaming laptop for travel. It cost me £550 and most of that was for the RTX3050. I was able to pop the back off, add in another 8 GB of RAM, doubling the original and replace the 512 GB SSD with a faster 1TB for less than £100, the next model up that had the same amount of RAM was over £200 more expensive (but it did have a 3060 to be fair).

A lot of budget laptops are deliberately underspec'd to force people afraid to upgrade to buying a far more expensive laptop.

All of this is a moot point anyway, Apple have been hostile to upgrades and repairs for decades, they already spend extra to solder in the hard drives and ram modules. Also anyone who didn't predict that they'd be killing off the Mac line for phone based ones? Anyone still denying that? Mac OS being killed off is next.

That's still 3 million people of the ext. 300 million laptops that get sold each year.

And I'm willing to bet a lot of people are like me who buy a lower spec'd model where I can upgrade the RAM and SSD on the cheap saving a hundred quid off the more expensive one.

However that's besides the point, Apple have been openly hostile to people who want to upgrade (and consumers in general) for years. Plenty of other manufacturers to choose from though.

As a side effect, they're going to become a huge vector for malware.

A fridge will last for a decade or more, they'll stop doing software updates after 7 years maximum, maybe even as low as 2. In fact some may never receive a software update.